Contributors

Sheldon Bach, PhD, is an adjunct clinical professor of psychology at the New York University postdoctoral program for psychoanalysis, a training and supervising analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and a fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is the author of several books on psychoanalysis and of many papers, some of which have been collected in Chimeras and Other Writings: Selected Papers of Sheldon Bach. He is in private practice and teaches in New York City.

Catherine Baker-Pitts, PhD, grew up living feminism with her three sisters and activist parents. In private practice for twenty years, she is a graduate of New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; lecturer at NYU School of Social Work; guest faculty at New Directions Writing Program; and co-director and faculty of a feminist relational therapy training program. Her work focuses on gender creativity, racial justice, and radical body acceptance.

Raquel Berman, PhD, is a founding member of MAPPTR and past president and training director of its Freud Institute. She is a foreign member of IPTAR. In 2016, in collaboration with INMUJERES (Government Agency for Women), she established a yearly prize in honoring “Women facing Adversity with Resilience.” In 2019 the International Psychoanalytic Association awarded her psychoanalytic community interventions with groups of female adolescents living in violent contexts with a prize from its IPA community committee on violence.

Rachel Brown is an educator and interdisciplinary media artist. She is currently an adjunct professor at NYU and works for Mouse, a youth development nonprofit that believes in technology as a force for good. Since 2014, Rachel has been a member of The Illuminator, a political projection collective based in NYC. She has an MFA in integrated media arts from Hunter College (CUNY), and is an avid cyclist, yogi, and wanderer. Inst